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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
there are no obvious objections to such a course, the em- 
inences, gentle swells, or hills, should be planted, in preference 
to the hollows or depressions. By planting the elevated 
portions of the grounds, their apparent height is increased ; 
but by planting the hollows, all distinction is lessened and 
broken up. Indeed, where there is but a trifling and scarcely 
perceptible undulation, the importance of the swells of 
surface already existing is surprisingly increased, when this 
course of planting is adopted ; and the whole, to the eye, 
appears finely varied. 
Where the grounds of the residence to be planted are level, 
or nearly so, and it is desirable to confine the view, on any 
or all sides, to the lawn or park itself, the boundary groups 
and masses must be so connected together as, from the most 
striking part or parts of the prospect, (near the house for ex- 
ample,) to answer this end. This should be done, not by 
planting a continuous, uniformly thick belt of trees round the 
outside of the whole ; but by so arranging the various outer 
groups and thickets, that when seen from the given points , 
they shall appear connected in one whole. In this way, 
there will be an agreeable variation in the margin, made 
by the various bays, recesses, and detached projections, which 
could not be so well effected, if the whole were one uniformly 
unbroken strip of wood. 
But where the house is so elevated as to command a more 
extensive view than is comprised in the demesne itself, another 
course should be adopted. The grounds planted must be 
made to connect themselves with the surrounding scenery, 
so as not to produce any violent contrast to the eye, when 
compared with the adjoining country. If then, as is most 
frequently the case, the lawn or pleasure-ground join, on 
either side or sides, cultivated farm lands, the proper connec- 
